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JUDGES STAND y carles hatton Lincoln - at - Washington will be host to the largest crowds thus far in the Illinois turf season this holiday week-end, if only it enjoys some pleasant weather. "The success of our meet is almost entirely a matter of weather conditions," Pete ODon-nell observes. "There is much interest in our cards, and I am optimistic that well have a good meeting. We have kept up the purse minimum in our second condition book." Saturdays 0,000 Steger has drawn a lively lot of sprinters, and indications today were that Mondays 5,000 Peabody Memorial will bring together Johns Joy, Ky. Colonel, Lextown, Ol Skipper, Provocative and Mr. Smug at a mile and a furlong. Jack Campbells Experimental and Line Plauts Yardstick both suggest Johns Joy as the one to beat, and they agree, also, that Provocative is likely to be the contender. When last seen Johns Joy was being rated in the Kentucky rferby, and he didnt appear very happy about it. The Peabody has a couple of dark horses in the Tennesseean, Cacomo, who won the Arkansas Derby, and the even more obscure Don Dinero, who races for Howard Jones, a local advertising man and sportsman. Perhaps you know that the Peabody last season won won by Billings, who ultimately was rated second to Citation among the 1948 three-year-olds. Billings is back at Washington and may spark up interest in the Lincoln Handicap. AAA The Illinois Legislature has before it a bill which would require tracks to offer win, place and show wagering in any races having as many as five entrants in different interests. We suppose that if such a bill is enacted, racing secretaries can cope with it in over-. nighters, but, of course, stakes are something else. Citation last year gave tracks a sort of minus-pool phobia, and, as recently as last Saturday at Churchill Downs, ODonnell Sees Lincolns Success Bill Requires Show Pool in Fields of Five Analysis of Time in Spring Classics Batcheller, Civitello Lose Bugs in June the Calumets had such an obvious lock on a 0,000 stake only two appeared against Free America and Armed, and it was carded as a betless race. Show plungers take the view that, since tracks are in the business, they should play their own game. The tracks include some like Belmont and Keeneland who are plowing so much revenue back into purses and stakes a minum pool could plunge the meeting into the red. But, mostly, they offer all the pools possible. AAA The 1949 three-year-olds seem to us to include a very admirable colt in Capot, and filly in Wistful, though the experts appear to have appraised them as an indifferent lot. This estimate may have to be revised later on, as it was in Assaults year. Capots Preakness was easily the best race run by a three-year-old up to this point. By quarters, the race was run in :23YS, :23Y5, :24. :26, with the final three-sixteents in :19. The Kentucky Derby quarters were :22, :24, :26, :26 and :26, with the last furlong in :14. The fourth quarter of the Pimlico Oaks was run in :26, the fourth quarter of the Kentucky Oaks in a roaring :27. These times do not suggest any vintage crop of stayers. Capots races are marked by the best sustained speed from end-to-end of middle distances. It seems he loses interest in proceedings if he is taken too far Qff the pace, as he was in the Derby Trial. But his people are pleased to find that he is more amiable about rating than he was at the outset of the season. We should think this might help him stay the Belmonts mile and a half, in which Palestinian and Ponder are expected to be his stoutest rivals. AAA Apprentice Logan David Batcheller, who displeased the Lincoln.-at-Washihgton stewards last week-end, will be back in action on Friday. Batcheller is the national leader, and was the leader at this meet when he neglected to keep a mount straight. He will have the apprentice allowance to the end of June. Batcheller is 20 and is a product of Azusa, Calif. He was developed by Paul Kelley, who also brought out Lee Humphries and other prominent riders. A natural left hander, Batcheller has learned to whip right handed, as well, and, more important, when to whip. His physique is a little like Conn Mccrearys, and he can tip the beam comfortably at 105. Batcheller had ridden 108 winners when he was set down 10 days, and was about 15 winners up on Gordon Glisson, Benny Civitello and Johnny Longden, who were in almost a dead heat for second place. Civitello is riding in good form over at Detroit Fair Grounds, and he will lose his apprentice allowance on June 11, only a few days before Batcheller. AAA Turf ana: Dale Shaffer points with excusable pride to Detroits percentage of winning choices. Its almost 50, which is really remarkable. . . . Leslie Combs II. bought Feudin Fightins dam for ,000 at the Keeneland Fall Sales in 48, and she was in foal to Hierocles. . . . In a recent Lincoln race, the first three were 10-year-olds. . . . War Fan, presumably barren when she was sold at the Spa last summer, amazed everyone by losing twins. . . . The Fat Lady was turned out several times at Coldstream, improved a bit each time. . . . Attendance at the recent Iroquois amateur meet, near Nashville, was 26,000. . . . Last time we looked, two-year-old favorites had won 71 per cent of the time at the MRA. . . . Arlington closes its Hyde Park, Princess Doreen and Equipoise Mile on June 11.
